re: 1st hitch offshore

it always amazes me that people think that working offshore should be treated any different than working anywhere else. It's just a job. It is a workplace and treated as such.
If you want to wear nice jacket and boots, do it...you'd do it in an office right?

Your stuff isn't any more likely to get stolen offshore as it is in an office onshore. Same precautions you take onshore take offshore. no more no less.

Biggest advice is don't act like you know everything and can do anything. Listen to the people with experience for most things...unless regs have changed that they are following from the past. Then bring it up NICELY and RESPECTFULLY.

I go offshore periodically. First time offshore no different than any office onshore.

THe way people talk about offshore work on here you NEVER hear it talked about like that in real life. Like everything else on the internet it is extremely exaggerated.

Is it dangerous...yes. and everyone takes their jobs and responsibilities very serious. BUT with any workplace you have to make it fun. Like others said, don't have thick skin. Joke around. Have fun.

But like i said, the offshore guys take their job very seriously (which isn't a point talked about on here that much). They want to do right, safely and environmentally. They do not want to see anyone get hurt or a spill occur or any other INC on the platform. They have pride in their work and their platform.

To me that is not expressed enough to the guys looking to get into the offshore work.

As an "office corportate" guy who only visits occasionally you realize how important the offshore guys are to your job in the office and how seriously they take their job.